A fast Santa Fe 16 car mail train is seen west of Florence Kansas on July 1st 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Union Pacific ALCO FA1 1608 and mates lead a westbound freight near Brady Nebraska in 1958. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF train 101, the Centennial State, is seen leaving Denver in 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Night moves. The crew of Southern Pacific Locomotive #18 stops to confer with their colleagues on SP Locomotive #9, as their two freights pass each other in the yard at Laws, California. <... (more)

The Al G. Barnes 26 car Circus Special is being led by ATSF 4-8-2 3713, east of La Junta Colorado, on July 23rd 1933. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

ATSF 3777 is seen with its wartime headlight visor attached, as it leads The Chief near Morley Colorado on April 9th 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

SP 9 makes the last steam run on the SP narrow gauge, from Owenyo to Keeler and return. It was retained as a backup for the single diesel on the line, and that morning the diesel returned on a (st... (more)

An eleven car Grand Canyon Limited, ATSF train 24, is seen at Belen New Mexico on April 6th 1940. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

N&W 1218 and 611 doublehead back to Roanoke from Radford VA with one of the many trips run during the 1987 National Railway Historical Society Convention.

End of the line for N&W Alco C630 and four EMD GP9's. 135 was originally numbered 1135. Fortunately 1135 did not get scrapped and is now on display at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roa... (more)

My favorite FP7 in the lead on the westbound Amtrak "San Francisco Zephyr" must be the result of some failure, mishap, or whatever.

The trinity of the UP Steam Program for so long, UP 4014 (4-8-8-4), UP 844 (4-8-4) and UP 3985 (4-6-6-4) look out of the Steam Shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming. In November of 2022, UP 3985 was donated ... (more)

D&RGW FT 543 and mates lead a 65 car freight near Pinecliff in 1947. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

A four-unit FT set is seen near Mitchell Colorado with 54 cars and two helpers, 3615 and 3414, on August 1st 1948. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Two A unit FTs are seen with only one B unit as they lead a freight south of Denver. Otto Perry photo, circa 1962, from my collection.